Open City Documentary Festival
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Open City Documentary Festival announces first 2023 programme details
London’s Open City Documentary Festival is back for its 13th edition from 6th to 12th September, showcasing the art of non-fiction filmmaking. This year, the festival will feature In Focus programmes dedicated to filmmaker Mary Helena Clark and artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. Audiences can also look forward to two special screening series: «No Master Territories: Feminist…
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«We will never take for granted how wonderful it is to be able to be together, in person, in a cinema»
OPEN CITY: Modern Times Review spoke with Festival Director María Palacios Cruz on the first post-pandemic edition, as well as her own introductions to creative documentaries and more.
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The earth doesn’t lie
COLONIALISM: Charting the French civil rights movement and the interwoven anti-colonial liberation struggles on the African continent through the life of activist and photographer, Bouba Touré.
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Darkest days of military rule
LEGACY: A son's search for meaning at the site of a former Argentinian concentration camp where his mother «disappeared» in the 1970s.
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Open City Documentary Festival announces full programme for 12th edition
The 12th edition of London’s Open City Documentary Festival has announed its full programme. Welcoming the first fully in-person activities since 2019, Open City Documentary Festival runs from 7 to 13 September at venues across the British capital, Bertha DocHouse, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, Close-Up Cinema, Curzon Soho, Genesis Cinema, Institute of Contemporary…
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Tied to the land
PALESTINE: The petty politics of Palestinian persecution – seen through the lens of age-old traditions of foraging for medicinal herbs.
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Festival Director – Open City Documentary Festival
Open City Docs is home to several projects in the world of documentary. Founded at UCL by Prof. Michael Stewart in 2010, Open City Docs is dedicated to developing and supporting non-fiction storytellers. The organisation nurtures the next generation of filmmakers, audio producers and VR filmmakers through training programmes, an annual film festival, and other…
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New independent documentary streaming service True Story launches
A new independent streaming platform has launched for documentary films. True Story currently features some 120 films, many for the first time widely online, alongside specially curated collections and programmed strands. Meant to enlighten and inform; provoke an urgent call to action; enrich and entertain; inspire and lead to new discoveries, True Story is available…
